these laws may have for public safety, there has been little empirical investigation of their impact on crime and …

neighborhood. Based on four successive waves of a large crime survey, matched with administrative records on household relocations …We provide evidence that perceptions of crime risk are severely biased for many years after a move to a new …, we find that the longer an individual lives in a neighborhood, the higher their perception of the crime rate in the …

For nearly 50 years academics have been studying how labor markets affect crime. The initial interesting and important … theoretical and empirical work generated substantial interest in studying crime among economists, in particular, and scholars in … markets reduce crime seems obvious and is widely accepted by many policy makers and academics, empirical results fail to show …

relationship between women's employment status and their well-being as measured by freedom from marital violence yields an … and their ownership of property, respectively, on spousal violence. Unlike the existing literature, we treat women's work … status and violence as simultaneously determined and find that women's engagement in paid work and ownership of property, are …

assess to what extent lagged teen birth rates can explain why the United States had the highest developed country crime rates … in the 1980s, and why US rates subsequently fell so much. For this purpose, I use internationally comparable crime rates … measured from the 1989-2000 International Crime Victims Surveys. I find that an increase in the share of young people born to a …

offenders. The overlap between offenders and victims is not well understood in criminology, and in the economics of crime the …

Crime rates almost doubled in China between 1992 and 2004. Over the same period, sex ratios (males to females) in the … crime-prone ages of 16-25 years rose sharply, from 1.053 to 1.093. Although scarcity of females is commonly believed to be a … small or related to social conditions liable to also affect crime rates. This paper exploits two unique features of the …